Lorne Victoria Australia
The Committee for Lorne publishes each week a page in The Surf Coast Times with a feature article and column from the chair of the CfL.
2025
2026
Sources:
- Surf Coast Times, Committee for Lorne Page
- Peter Spring, weekly email
2025, May
May 16 The Tweenies ‘Tweenies’ is a story I have always wanted to tackle, but from a different, more personal, and intimate perspective than is found in most of the extensive literature on World War kids stuck at home. Tweenies is not a new word. If you Google ‘Tweenies’, a zillion articles appear, including about...Read more
2025, July
18 July Lorne’s One and Future King On May 22 1877, – (Note: 1877) – ‘our own correspondent’ from the Geelong Advertiser wrote the following heavily edited piece: “… we have had splendid rainfall – heavy showers through the night and light showers in the daytime. The temperature, though cool and comfortable, has been several...Read more
2025, November
7th November 2025 Honouring Our Past The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘honour’ [Australian and UK spelling] or ‘honor’ [US spelling] as signifying: … Great respect, esteem, or reverence received, gained, or enjoyed by a person or thing; glory, renown, fame; reputation, good name. Honour is a noble word, and one that is nearly as old...Read more
2026, January
23rd January 2026 Dry Lightning – a lethal reality As dusk descended on Lorne on Friday, January 9th — the eve of the Pier to Pub, the busiest day of Lorne’s annual calendar — the sky glowed threateningly red with a smoky sunset the like of which we had not seen for many years. To...Read more
2026, February
6 February 2026 The Marion A piece of Lorne’s surf and fishing history has arrived at the Men’s Shed, via some exceptional organisation from the Men’s Shed founding father and stalwart, Allan Walls. Over the next year or so, a superbly built little craft, the Marion, will slowly emerge from its near-forgotten and lonely obscurity...Read more
2026, March
6th March 2026 Flailing About Have you ever watched the desperate struggle of an upended Christmas beetle as it tries to gain traction against something—anything—in its fight for survival? Its ‘flailing about’ is a fitting parody of me getting out of bed, onto and off a sun lounge, or getting into and out of a...Read more
